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The insider/outsider debate : new perspectives in the study of religion / edited by George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg.

Contributor(s): Chryssides, George D, 1945- [editor.] | Gregg, Stephen E [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xi, 421 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781793435; 1781793433; 9781781793442; 1781793441Subject(s): Religion -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 200.72 LOC classification: BL41 | .I455 2019Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Relational religious lives : beyond insider/outsider binaries in the study of religion / Stephen E. Gregg, George D. Chryssides -- The emics and etics of religion : what we know, how we know it, and why this matters / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- The death pangs of the insider/outsider dichotomy in the study of religion / Ron Geaves -- Research ethics beyond the binaries of right and wrong / Marie W. Dallam -- Taking the body seriously, taking relationalities seriously : an embodied and relational approach to ethnographic research in the study of (lived) religion / Nina Hoel -- Negotiating blurred boundaries : an ethnographic and methodological consideration / Fiona Bowie -- On the edge of the inside : contemplative approaches to the study of religion / Lynne Scholefield -- Taking sides : on the (im)possibility of participant-observation / Rebecca Moore -- Who researches? Who changes? : Christian autoethnography and Muslim pupil Identity in a Church of England primary school / Tom Wilson -- Imported insider/outsider Boundaries : the case of contemporary Chinese Christianity researchers / Naomi E. Thurston --
Part Two: Contested Identities in the Study of Religion -- Close encounters of a guru kind : ethnographic research as encounters with the cognitive worlds of others / Stephen Jacobs -- Who is a Jew? : new approaches to an old question / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Between institutional oppression and spiritual liberation : the female ordination movement in the Catholic Church and its utilisation of social media / Lyndel Spence -- Navigating multiplicity in a binary world : a Javenese example of complex religious identity / Katherine Rand -- When it gets crowded under the umbrella : an examination of scholarly categorisation of Buddhist communities in the United States / Claire Miller Skriletz -- Being Catholic since Vatican II : challenges and opportunities in post-secular times / Andrew P. Lynch -- Reflexive and holistic switchers : older women, newer commitments / Janet B. Eccles -- Scientology inside out : complex religious belonging in the Church of Scientology and the Free Zone / Stephen E. Gregg, Aled J. L. Thomas -- Moving out : disengagement and ex-membership in new religious movements / George D. Chryssides -- Both outside and inside : 'ex-members' of new religions and spiritualities and the maintenance of community and identity on the internet / Carole M. Cusack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Part One: New Methodological Approaches in the Study of Religion -- Relational religious lives : beyond insider/outsider binaries in the study of religion / Stephen E. Gregg, George D. Chryssides -- The emics and etics of religion : what we know, how we know it, and why this matters / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- The death pangs of the insider/outsider dichotomy in the study of religion / Ron Geaves -- Research ethics beyond the binaries of right and wrong / Marie W. Dallam -- Taking the body seriously, taking relationalities seriously : an embodied and relational approach to ethnographic research in the study of (lived) religion / Nina Hoel -- Negotiating blurred boundaries : an ethnographic and methodological consideration / Fiona Bowie -- On the edge of the inside : contemplative approaches to the study of religion / Lynne Scholefield -- Taking sides : on the (im)possibility of participant-observation / Rebecca Moore -- Who researches? Who changes? : Christian autoethnography and Muslim pupil Identity in a Church of England primary school / Tom Wilson -- Imported insider/outsider Boundaries : the case of contemporary Chinese Christianity researchers / Naomi E. Thurston --

Part Two: Contested Identities in the Study of Religion -- Close encounters of a guru kind : ethnographic research as encounters with the cognitive worlds of others / Stephen Jacobs -- Who is a Jew? : new approaches to an old question / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Between institutional oppression and spiritual liberation : the female ordination movement in the Catholic Church and its utilisation of social media / Lyndel Spence -- Navigating multiplicity in a binary world : a Javenese example of complex religious identity / Katherine Rand -- When it gets crowded under the umbrella : an examination of scholarly categorisation of Buddhist communities in the United States / Claire Miller Skriletz -- Being Catholic since Vatican II : challenges and opportunities in post-secular times / Andrew P. Lynch -- Reflexive and holistic switchers : older women, newer commitments / Janet B. Eccles -- Scientology inside out : complex religious belonging in the Church of Scientology and the Free Zone / Stephen E. Gregg, Aled J. L. Thomas -- Moving out : disengagement and ex-membership in new religious movements / George D. Chryssides -- Both outside and inside : 'ex-members' of new religions and spiritualities and the maintenance of community and identity on the internet / Carole M. Cusack.

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